Youth Fitness Coach – Female Juvenile Justice Program
Organization: Juvenile Giants
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Position Type: Full-Time
Schedule: 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Compensation: $60–$70 per hour, based on relevant experience and qualifications
Work Location: In person
This position works directly with female youth in a juvenile justice setting. Qualified fitness professionals of all genders are encouraged to apply.
PLEASE READ BEFORE APPLYING
Professional fitness or sports coaching experience is required.
We are specifically seeking candidates with hands-on experience as personal trainers, gym coaches, fitness instructors, strength and conditioning coaches, athletic coaches, boxing coaches, sports performance coaches, or similar fitness professionals.
This is not a psychology, counseling, social work, nursing, case management, or clinical position. Applicants whose background is primarily in these areas without substantial hands-on fitness or sports coaching experience will not be considered.
This position goes beyond leading workouts. We need coaches who can teach young people how to become coaches themselves — including how to lead a workout, demonstrate and explain exercises, correct technique, motivate participants, create structure, and safely guide others through a training session.
To Apply
Please submit:
- A current résumé that clearly shows your fitness, training, or sports coaching experience.
- Optional, at the applicant’s discretion: Candidates may include a recent professional photograph with their résumé.
- Strongly encouraged: a link to your public professional Instagram, coaching page, fitness portfolio, website, or other professional profile demonstrating your experience as a trainer or coach.
Applications that do not demonstrate relevant fitness or sports coaching experience will not be considered.
About Juvenile Giants
Juvenile Giants is a nonprofit organization that works with justice-involved youth in Los Angeles.
Through structured fitness and coaching, we help young people build discipline, confidence, leadership, professional skills, and pathways toward future opportunities.
Our program is designed not only to train participants physically, but also to help them learn how to train, coach, and lead others.
The Role
We are looking for an experienced Youth Fitness Coach who knows how to do more than conduct a workout.
The right candidate must be comfortable teaching young people both how to train and how to coach.
This role works directly with female youth in a juvenile justice setting and requires a professional who can create a structured, respectful, motivating, and safe training environment.
Participants should gradually learn how to:
- Demonstrate exercises correctly.
- Explain exercises clearly to another person.
- Observe and correct exercise technique.
- Structure and lead a workout session.
- Give clear instructions and coaching cues.
- Encourage and motivate participants appropriately.
- Maintain safety and organization during training.
- Develop professionalism, confidence, discipline, and leadership as a coach.
The goal is to expose young people to the skills and standards of the fitness industry and help prepare interested participants to eventually pursue opportunities as trainers, fitness professionals, or coaches.
Responsibilities
- Lead safe, structured, and engaging fitness sessions for youth.
- Demonstrate proper exercise form and training techniques.
- Teach participants how and why exercises are performed.
- Teach participants how to communicate instructions and coach others.
- Help youth practice leading portions of workouts under supervision.
- Introduce basic principles of workout structure, warm-ups, conditioning, recovery, and safe training.
- Provide constructive corrections and coaching feedback.
- Model the professionalism and behavior expected from a trainer or coach.
- Help participants develop confidence, discipline, communication, accountability, and leadership.
- Maintain a positive, respectful, organized, and safe training environment.
- Work collaboratively with Juvenile Giants staff and partner facilities.
- Track attendance and participant progress.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated professional or substantial hands-on experience in fitness training, gym coaching, sports coaching, strength and conditioning, personal training, athletic performance, boxing, or a closely related field.
- Strong understanding of exercise technique and safe training practices.
- Ability to demonstrate exercises and explain them clearly to beginners.
- Ability to lead and manage group training sessions.
- Ability to teach others how to coach — not simply perform exercises.
- Strong leadership, communication, and motivational skills.
- Professional and dependable demeanor.
- Ability to work effectively with teenagers and young adults.
- Ability to maintain appropriate professional boundaries in a juvenile justice environment.
- Availability to work full-time from 12:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
- Reliable transportation.
- Ability to meet applicable background-check and facility requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Personal Trainer, Group Fitness, Strength & Conditioning, Sports Performance, Boxing, or similar professional certification.
- Previous experience coaching or training teenagers or young adults.
- Experience working with youth in structured, community-based, educational, athletic, or justice-related programs.
- Experience developing assistant coaches, junior trainers, athletes, or fitness professionals.
- CPR/First Aid certification or willingness to obtain it.
- Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus.
- Public professional fitness/coaching portfolio, website, or social media presence demonstrating relevant coaching work.
What We Are Looking For
We want someone who can eventually hand a young participant part of the session and say:
“Now you coach.”
And who has the experience to teach that young person what good coaching actually requires.
This is a hands-on fitness and coach-development position. We are looking for professionals who genuinely know the training environment, understand how to work with the body safely, know how to lead others through exercise, and can transfer that knowledge to the next generation of coaches.
We value coaches who can combine technical fitness knowledge, leadership, discipline, patience, and the ability to teach.
Pay: $60.00–$70.00 per hour
Schedule: Full-Time, 12:00 PM–8:00 PM
Work Location: In person — Los Angeles, CA
Juvenile Giants welcomes qualified applicants of all genders and backgrounds.
Pay: $60.00 - $70.00 per hour
Benefits:
Work Location: In person
